BICHIR

Definition: BICHIR

BICHIR

Noun

1. A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note: Bichir \Bi*chir"\, noun. [Native name.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: BICHIR

English words defined with "BICHIR": Brachioganoidei ♦ Finpike ♦ Polypteroidei, Polypterus. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Bichir

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bichirs

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Polypteriformes
Family:	Polypteridae

Species

Erpetoichthys calabaricus
Polypterus ansorgii
Polypterus bichir
Polypterus delhezi
Polypterus endlicheri
Polypterus ornatipinnis
Polypterus palmas
Polypterus retropinnis
Polypterus senegalus
Polypterus weeksii

The bichirs are a family (Polypteridae) of primitive ray-finned fishes. They have thick bonelike scales and a series of dorsal finlets instead of a single fin. All occur in freshwater habitats in Africa.

External link

FishBase entry for Polypteridae

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bichir."

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Usage Frequency: BICHIR

"BICHIR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BICHIR" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BICHIR

Expression using "BICHIR": polypterus bichir. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BICHIR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bichir	13
demian bichir	7
bichir fish	4
bichir ornate	3
bichir bruno	2
bichir senegalus	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: BICHIR

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Polypterus bichir. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: BICHIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-h-i-i-r"
	-1 letter: birch.
	-2 letters: crib, rich.
	-3 letters: chi, hic, ich, rib.
	-4 letters: bi, hi.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-h-i-i-r"
	+2 letters: birching, bitchier.
	+3 letters: bishopric, herbicide, hubristic.
	+4 letters: biographic, biomorphic, biospheric, bishoprics, bitcheries, brainchild, bronchitic, bronchitis, childbirth, herbicidal, herbicides, tribrachic.
	+5 letters: besmirching, bimorphemic, biorhythmic, brachiating, brachiation, childbirths, dithyrambic.
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